All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThe believer is happy. The doubter is wise.
More Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.
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When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.
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From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.
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Deep in earth my love is lying and I must weep alone.
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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The best things in life make you sweaty.
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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I am a writer. Therefore, I am not sane.
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I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.
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Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.
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That which you mistake for madness is but an overacuteness of the senses.
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In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
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The world is a great ocean, upon which we encounter more tempestuous storms than calms.
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Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
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